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"A Feather on the Breath of God"- what the melody language of Hildegard von Bingen's music makes her the great composer in the 12th century.
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"A Feather on the Breath of God" - what the melody language of Hildegard von Bingen's music makes her the great composer in the 12th century. Hildegard of Bingen was born in 1098, convent-educated from the age of 7 by Benedictine nuns at Disibodenberg, near Bingen. She became abbess of her community at age 43. Historians know Hildegard mainly from her book of visions; medical historians and botanists for her two books on natural history and medicine. Literary and music scholars began from her morality play, the Ordo Virtutum. This is her first miracle play, which is set to music and was performed by women, a rarity for the time. Hildegard only turned her talented gift to music in the 1150s. Musicians know Hildegard for her antiphons, hymns, and sequences, a large body of monophonic chants whose text and music are both by Hildegard. She is the first female...
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